Of Monsters and Men - Destroyer (Official Lyric Video)

I want to be the king of my body and mind
Gravity let me go
Before it bruises and blackens me and you
Bury me in the glow… Of Monsters and Men.

A dark beauty

"for whatever I don't ask and you don't give me
will be for death that does not leave
even a shadow on trembling flesh."

            — Federico García Lorca

Eudora Welty was born on April 13, 1909 and was a gardener.

“People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.”

                                     

                                   — Eudora Welty

Spring 2025 April

 Lots of work to do in the garden this season. It rained all last fall, it snowed all January 2025, it rained with tornadoes all March, and I've been under the weather myself. But I have flowers everywhere, some wild like these.

Trying hard.

“Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything.” — Jack Kerouac

This is my life right now.

"Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement." 

             

                               Albert Camus

Reading Divine Rivals and Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross

 

Reading Divine Rivals and Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross. I promised myself to do a little reviewing and talking about books this year. Mostly I just read a book and keep my thoughts to myself. Sometimes I make comments on Goodreads. But they are personal. I wanted to do a bit more this time around. So, I am going to create new labels for 2025 reading and comments. Been really thinking about how much time has passed since 2015. I don't think I really became fully engaged with social media until 2019. I sort of phoned it in. I was not here. First thing to note on these books...they have absolutely stunning covers. Rebecca Ross did some stunning writing, too. More on that in forthcoming posts. A note. I bought the audibles and I am reading and making notes at the same time. It's all good.

Writing Fantasy

"Genre has great trappings, no doubt about it. We’ve got dragons and space ships and murders and kissing, and the skilled creation of great trappings is an essential part of writing genre, and an awesome part, but I don’t think it’s the heart of it. The test of a genre book is in the purity and potency with which these elemental harp strings are played. Underneath your dragons and space ships and murders and kissing, you’d better be connecting to these primal human cravings." 

              — Laini Taylor